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Friday, May 30, 2008

New Book on Environmental Policy

Two MIT professors, Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart, have just written a book called Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics. From the summary:

This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars. The authors focus on pollution, addressing both pollution control and prevention, but also emphasize the evaluation, design, and use of the law to stimulate technical change and industrial transformation, arguing that there is a need to address broader issues of sustainable development.

While the book gets into the nuts and bolts of environmental policy, it also discusses where environmental policy intersects with administrative law (chapter 5) and information disclosure (chapter 10).

Find out more here.